Fly-trap.



Patented Aug. 7, 1917.

IIIIIIIILIIII IIII|IIIII|| JOHN IB. KIRBY,l OF `'WI-II'.I.1V[.A1\TV`, MASSACHUSETTS.

` FLY-TRAP.

Specification of Lettersrlfatent. ,l v13g-1.1151113911. Aug'. 7 1917.

Application filed September 18, 1916., ASerial No. 120,629.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN B. KmBY, a citizen of the United States, and resident lof Whitman, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fly-Traps, of

. which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to Hy traps and consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the preferred embodiment of the invention,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device partly broken away;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the device; and

Fig. 3 is a cross section showing the base in plan.

The body frame upon which a sheet of ordinary sticky Hy paper is mounted in cylindrical form, consists as herein shown of a pair of cylindrical supports a, a', which may be made of sheet metal connected by longitudinal wires or braces a2. Each cylindrical support a and a is provided with a paper engaging tongue a3. As many connecting members a2 as desired may be used to insure sufficient rigidity of the frame, two being shown in the drawings. b is a dished base, the concave side of which engages the end of the paper-receiving body frame. Y It may be provided if desired with an annular bead or rib b located just within the periphery of the cylinder a', forming with the upturned edge of the base b a trough for receiving any of the sticky material which may drip or How down from the paper.

The top member or cover c is dished and is similar in shape to the base, the concave side engaging the upper end of the body ame.

The body frame, base, and cover are separably connected together by means of a rod d which extends through an aperture in the cover c, downward through the body frame, and through an aperture in the base b. The aperture in the base b is a keyhole aperture a4, as best shown in Fig. 3, and the lower end of the rod d is provided with a projection d preferably formed by a bend in the rod which will pass through the keyhole aperture a, and when the rod d is slipped into the narrow part of the keyhole aperture a* will engage the base b, thereby separably i connecting the parts together.

The upper end of the rod d is provided with an enlargement preferably in the form of a ring d2, by which the device maybe suspended, and a spring e interposed between the ring d2 and the cover o yieldingly holds the parts in engagement.

The extremity of each cylinder a and a may be finished if desired with a turned over lip or bead a5.

The Hy paper p is secured to lthe body frame in the form of a cylindrical roll and is held in place bymeans of the tongues as which are passed through the paper near one edge, and the opposite edge, after the soy paper has been wrapped around theframe,

is slipped under the tongues as best shown in Fig. 3.

I claim:

l. In a Hy paper holder, a cylinder upon which the Hy paper is wound, dished heads mounted on the ends of said cylinder, said dished heads having bottoms and side walls inclined to said bottoms, said heads being located'on the ends of said cylinder and having the dished portions facing each other, and the inclined sides of said heads overlying the paper to protect the same.

2. A Hy paper holder comprising a cylindrical frame upon which the Hy paper is wound, dished heads disposed at the ends of said frame, said heads having bottoms and side walls making an angle with said bottoms, said heads being located at the ends of said frame and having the dished portions facing each other, the sides of said heads overlying the paper to protect the same, and means for yieldingly holding at least one of said heads against the frame so that it may be retracted from the frame a sufficient distance topermit the winding of a sheet of Hy paper around the frame.

3. A Hy paper holder comprising a frame upon which the Hy paper is wound, Vdished heads disposed at the ends of said frame, said heads having bottoms and side walls making an angle with said bottoms, said heads being located vat the ends of said frame and having the dished portions facing each other, the sides of said heads overlying the paper to Vprotect the same, a rod extending through said frame and one of said heads,

a springdisposedbetween the stop and head for yieldingly holding the heads against the opposite ends of the frame.

4. A ly paper holder comprising a frame upon which the ily paper is Wound, dished heads disposed at the ends of said frame',

said heads having bottoms and side Walls'V making anl angle with said bottoms, said heads being located at the ends of said frame and having the dished portions facing each other the-sides of said-heads overlying the paper to protect the same, and means eX- tending through the frame into engagement Withv the heads for detaehably holding the heads in operative position With respect to the frame.

Signed by me at Whitman, Mass., this fourteenth day of September, 1916.

JOHN B. KIRBY.

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